Sinéad O’Sullivan
Biographic Data
| ID | 5433452 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sinéad O’Sullivan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sinéad |
| FAMILY NAME | O’Sullivan |
| SIGNATURE | O’SULLIVAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University Belfast |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1957 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Book as Bibliotheca
Since the pioneering research of Louis Holtz and Margaret Gibson, questions have remained about the evolution and significance of a new design in early medieval manuscripts, variously referred to as the “commented edition” or “integrated glossed page.” In this paper I argue that the arrangement of commentary on a central text in columnar format was a codicological innovation crystallizing in Carolingian centers. For the evolution of the design, I…
Crafting Knowledge in the Early Medieval Book
Glossing Vergil and Pagan Learning in the Carolingian Age
Though a conventional diatribe against secular studies persisted in the early medieval period, avid glossing of pagan texts demonstrates that early medieval commentators had few qualms about reading them and that crucially the patristic bias against classical learning had been rendered obsolete. 1 This paper focuses on a single ninth-century Vergil manuscript, Oxford, Bodleian Library, Auct. F. 2. 8, and its rich scholarly apparatus as an instanc…
Servius in the Carolingian Age
In Harley 2782, Servius’s late antique commentary on Vergil was transmitted as an independent text, edited, corrected, glossed, marked for mythological information, provided with NOTA monograms and headings, as well as interspersed and augmented with scholia adespota and non-Servian material. The scholarly conventions attested in this manuscript show the kinds of critical apparatus that fed into the early medieval appropriation of Vergil and abov…
The Collection and Classification of Folklore in Ireland and the Isle of Man
(1957). The Collection and Classification of Folklore in Ireland and the Isle of Man. Folklore: Vol. 68, No. 4, pp. 449-457
Glossing Vergil and Pagan Learning in the Carolingian Age
Though a conventional diatribe against secular studies persisted in the early medieval period, avid glossing of pagan texts demonstrates that early medieval commentators had few qualms about reading them and that crucially the patristic bias against classical learning had been rendered obsolete. 1 This paper focuses on a single ninth-century Vergil manuscript, Oxford, Bodleian Library, Auct. F. 2. 8, and its rich scholarly apparatus as an instanc…
The Collection and Classification of Folklore in Ireland and the Isle of Man
(1957). The Collection and Classification of Folklore in Ireland and the Isle of Man. Folklore: Vol. 68, No. 4, pp. 449-457
The Collection and Classification of Folklore in Ireland and the Isle of Man
(1957). The Collection and Classification of Folklore in Ireland and the Isle of Man. Folklore: Vol. 68, No. 4, pp. 449-457
Servius in the Carolingian Age
In Harley 2782, Servius’s late antique commentary on Vergil was transmitted as an independent text, edited, corrected, glossed, marked for mythological information, provided with NOTA monograms and headings, as well as interspersed and augmented with scholia adespota and non-Servian material. The scholarly conventions attested in this manuscript show the kinds of critical apparatus that fed into the early medieval appropriation of Vergil and abov…
Glossing Vergil and Pagan Learning in the Carolingian Age
Though a conventional diatribe against secular studies persisted in the early medieval period, avid glossing of pagan texts demonstrates that early medieval commentators had few qualms about reading them and that crucially the patristic bias against classical learning had been rendered obsolete. 1 This paper focuses on a single ninth-century Vergil manuscript, Oxford, Bodleian Library, Auct. F. 2. 8, and its rich scholarly apparatus as an instanc…
Crafting Knowledge in the Early Medieval Book
Book as Bibliotheca
Since the pioneering research of Louis Holtz and Margaret Gibson, questions have remained about the evolution and significance of a new design in early medieval manuscripts, variously referred to as the “commented edition” or “integrated glossed page.” In this paper I argue that the arrangement of commentary on a central text in columnar format was a codicological innovation crystallizing in Carolingian centers. For the evolution of the design, I…
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